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May fifteenth is National Endangered Species Day. It is celebrated to remind us of the importance of protecting endangered species and their habitats. Legislation on endangered species was passed during the Nixon presidency. The Trump administration has weakened many parts of the act.
Suppressing the census count of frontline communities directly affected by climate disaster would further inequity, especially when those communities are in crisis and need emergency resources and fair representation from elected officials on environmental policies.
Great River Energy will shutter its big North Dakota coal-fired power plant several years early, an extraordinary move that underscores the waning cost-competitiveness of coal in electricity production.
Jane Goodall wrote a piece for Mongabay, a publisher of environmental news based in California. Dr. Goodall is such an important person that we have taken portions of the article for this story without edits. Her title is COVID-19 Is a Product of Our Unhealthy Relationship with Animals and the Environment.
While meat processing facilities shut down and cause shortages in the beef and pork supply chains, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are seeing a spike in sales during the coronavirus pandemic, as The Hill reports.
Indiana’s large investor-owned electric and gas monopoly utilities have filed a petition before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission asking permission to allow them to categorize lower energy sales as an expense caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and to permit them to collect those lost revenues from consumers.
Renewable energy in the U-S has beaten coal as the country’s leading electricity source for a record forty days.
Duke and Indianapolis Power and Light are estimated to have lost millions of dollars by running inefficient coal plants.
More than half a dozen Indiana communities will soon take the first steps in cleaning up contaminated parcels of unused land blighting their regions. The U-S Environmental Protection Agency selected seven brownfield site applications from around Indiana for more than two point seven million dollars in grants.
